Decades after getting a child-care bursary from Ontario, this woman was told to pay it back [Video]

Jennifer Craft says she did everything right when she received an Ontario child-care bursary in 1996 as a single mother.

The money was to help pay for daycare for her two-and-a-half-year old daughter while she studied at Fleming College in Peterborough, Ont., and that’s how it was used, she says.

“It helped subsidize some of that cost so that I could go to nursing school and provide a better life for ourselves,” said Craft. 

But Craft was recently contacted by a collection agency seeking that money because she allegedly failed to provide receipts to demonstrate the $1,245 was spent properly.

First came the automated calls in late 2023 and early 2024 from the agency addressing Craft by her maiden name, which she changed after getting married in 2000. 

• Got a story you want investigated? Contact the Go Public team

“It’s hard to prove now, 30 years later, that I did the appropriate things,” she told Go Public. “I don’t even keep …